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Letters Patent No. 74,316, dated February 11, 1868.

IMPROVED HORSE-YOKE.

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Be it known that I, D. K. CROFFUT, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecti cut, havev invented a new Improvement in HorseYokos; and I de hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and repre-sent, in-

lFigure' 1, a front view, and in Figure 2 a top` view.

This invention relates to an improvementl in a yoke for coupling horses, and consists, first, in the construction o'f`a. solid haine, and also in the peculiar construction ofthe yoke; and in order to the clear understanding of my invention, as well as to enable others to construct the same, I will proceed to n. description thereof', as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the connecting-bar, provided with a ring, B, or other convenience for attaching the yoke to the thing to be drawn, each end formed into a bow, C, braced in its construction by curved attachments, D. E, the hames, formed solid, without joint, or, as it were, in a single piece, to slip on over the collar of th`e horse :md set into a slot, F, at the top, and secured at the bottom, G, in any convenient manner, so that they muy turn in their bearing-G and also in the slot, to give freedom to the movement of thc horses, and resting in the slot lat the top, so as to move freely to the right or left, asv denoted in blue and red, (fig. 1,) to permit thc frecmovcment up and down of either hanne. v

To yoke two animals, place one ot` tho hannes E upon each, then insert the eye upon4 the top of the heme into the slot, and the other end into the bearing G, and secure thereto in any convenient manner, then attach the yoke to the thing to he moved, in any convenient manner, according to the nature of the work to be done.

The advantages of this yoke for farming purposes are obvious; and, first, in that ot' ploughing, or like purposes, where whiille-trees are a source of great annoyance, they are dispensed with, and a. chain extending from the yoke to the plough-beam in like manner as when ploughing with oxen, and in all places where there is no pole necessary,thehdvantagcs of the yoke are so obvious that mention need not here be malle. i

By the use of the yoke all inclina-tion of the animals to crowd is avoided, and the work performed is faimore comfortable for the animals than by the ordinary traces.

Hold-backs, if desired, are attached to thc eye II upon the hame, so that wherever the yoke is used traces and whiliie-trecs are unnecessary.

I do not broadly claim a yoke constructed with bows piroteil at the top and bottom, as such may be seen in the patent of Gideon Hotchkiss, August 31, 1837.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters 1. A solid or continuous heme, constructed so asl to slip on over thc collar, substantially as and for tho pur. pose specified.

2. The combination of the yoke E with bows C, provided with the slots F, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Wt D. K. CROFFUT` 1 messes:

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